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Dr Paul Antony Hayward

Senior Lecturer

Current Teaching

Hist 200, 201, 311, 401, 413, 422

Research Interests

Dr Hayward's research interests cover the writing of history, the cult of saints and political practice in medieval Europe with reference to Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, but also with a particular interest in the English reception of materials transmitted from the Continent and especially Germany.

In 2011-12, he will be a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, USA.

Publications

  • The Politics of Sanctity in Anglo-Norman England (Oxford: Oxford University Press). In hand.
  • 'The History of Historical Practice and the Study of the Middle Ages', The IAS Institute Letter, Spring 2012, p. 7. Available online at http://www.ias.edu/about/publications.
  • 'The Importance of Being Ambiguous: Innuendo and Legerdemain in William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum and Gesta pontificum Anglorum', Anglo-Norman Studies, 33 (2011), 75-102. Available from Boydell & Brewer.
  • 'St Wilfrid of Ripon andthe Northumbrian Church in Anglo-Norman Historiography',Northern History, 49:1 (2012), 9-33. doi:10.1179/174587012X13230354351546; ISSN:0078-172X.
  • 'Cults and Saints', in J. Crick and E. M. C. van Houts (eds), A Social History of England, 900-1200 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 309-20 (Chapter V.3). Available from Cambridge University Press.
  • 'Geoffrey of Wells' Liber de infantia sancti Edmundi and the "Anarchy" of King Stephen's Reign', in Anthony Bale (ed.), St Edmund, King and Martyr: Images of a Medieval Saint (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press for the York Medieval Press, 2009), pp. 63-86. Available from Boydell & Brewer.
  • 'The Coventry Chronicle', 'Eadmer of Canterbury', 'Gervase of Canterbury', 'Gloucester Abbey, Chronicles of', 'Hugh the Chanter', 'John of Worcester', 'Norman Annals', 'Richard of Devizes', 'Thomas of Marlborough', 'The Winchcombe Chronicle', and 'Winchcombe, Later Annals of', in Graeme Dunphy et al. (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Medieval Chronicle, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 2010). Available from Brill.
  • The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles: Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to the Work of John of Worcester, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 373, 2 vols. (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010). xli + 750 pages along with 6 full colour plates. MS at press 2006; available from MRTS.
  • 'The Cult of St Alban, Anglorum protomartyr, in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England', in Johan Leemans (ed.), More than a Memory: The Discourse of Martyrdom and the Construction of Christian Identity in the History of Christianity, Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia 51 (Louvain: Peeters, 2005), pp. 169-99. Available from Peeters.
  • 'Before the Coming of Popular Heresy: The Rhetoric of Heresy in English Historiography, c. 700-1154', in Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen, and Cary J. Nederman (eds.), Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Catholic Christendom 1300-1700 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 9-27. Available from Ashgate.
  • 'Gregory the Great as "Apostle of the English" in Post-Conquest Canterbury', The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 55:1 (2004), 19-57. doi: 10.1017/S0022046903008911.
  • 'Some Reflections on the Historical Value of the so-called Acta Lanfranci', Historical Research, 77:2 (2004), 141-60. doi: 10.1111/j.0950-3471.2004.00204.x.
  • 'An Absent Father: Eadmer, Goscelin and the Cult of St Peter, the First Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury', The Journal of Medieval History, 29:3 (2003), 201-18. doi: 10.1016/S0304-4181(03)00030-7.
  • 'De-mystifying the Role of Sanctity in Western Christendom', in Paul Antony Hayward and James Howard-Johnston (eds.), The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000; pbk edn, 2002), pp. 115-42. Available from OUP.
  • Edited with James Howard-Johnston, The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (as above).
  • 'Sanctity and Lordship in Twelfth-Century England: Saint Albans, Durham, and the Cult of Saint Oswine, King and Martyr', Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 30 (1999), 105-44. doi: 10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.300831.
  • 'Translation-Narratives in Post-Conquest Hagiography and English Resistance to the Norman Conquest', Anglo-Norman Studies, 21 (1999), 67-93. Available from Boydell & Brewer.
  • 'The Miracula inuentionis beate Mylburge uirginis attributed to "Ato, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia"', The English Historical Review, 114 (1999), 543-73. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/580382.
  • 'Suffering and Innocence in Latin Sermons for the Feast of the Holy Innocents, c. 400-800 A.D.', in Diana Wood (ed.), Church and Childhood, Studies in Church History 31 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994), pp. 67-80.
  • 'The Idea of Innocent Martyrdom in Late Tenth- and Eleventh-Century English Hagiology', in Diana Wood (ed.), Martyrs and Martyrologies, Studies in Church History 30 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993), pp. 81-92.

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Associated Keywords: Anglo-Norman England, Anglo-Saxon England, Anthropology of Religion, Classical literature, Colonialism, Cultural anthropology, Early Middle Ages, Ethnicity, France, Germany, Hagiography, Hermeneutics, Historiography, History, Language, Memory, Middle Ages, Monasticism, Normandy, Politics, Race, Religion

 

 

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